Blood Drive

 Xbox 360
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 4 out of 15
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  1. UnderrateXposer
    Nov 16, 2012
    9
    I am a zombie game master :D and I am giving this a 9 since it is a great zombie driving-over-killing-shooting action-racing-zombie game. Fun characters and enough humor to keep you smiling :) It may not deserve 60 bucks but go spend 10-20 anytime anywhere.
  2. B1sh0p
    Nov 7, 2010
    1
    It's total trash, and it it doesn't cost more words...................................................................................................
  3. Beejor
    Mar 14, 2011
    8
    The critics really bashed this one, but I'm not sure why. After reading Joystiq's scathing review I was afraid to pick it up, but I'm glad I did. Solid controls, fitting music, nice graphics, fun and frantic arcade-type gameplay... the only thing that really hurts the title for me is lack of offline multiplayer, and the occasional frame rate issues. An inter-event game save feature mightThe critics really bashed this one, but I'm not sure why. After reading Joystiq's scathing review I was afraid to pick it up, but I'm glad I did. Solid controls, fitting music, nice graphics, fun and frantic arcade-type gameplay... the only thing that really hurts the title for me is lack of offline multiplayer, and the occasional frame rate issues. An inter-event game save feature might have been nice for the longer cups, but it's not a huge deal.

    In the game you pick a driver, each with their own personality and special attacks. Then you choose a car "loadout" and jump into tournaments to unlock more arenas, achievements, ending movies, and other game content. Each tournament has one or more arenas with a bunch of events like demolition derby, racing, elimination, and (one of the most fun) seeing who can hit the most zombies with their car. The zombie mechanic works well and you can rack up combos or find secret zombies for more points. Some zombies are powerful and will try to latch on to your car or smash it into pieces. The game AI is okay for the most part. It seems like they only really put up a fight in the last stages. You get assigned a rival and you're awarded bonus points if you come ahead in any given match.

    Blood Drive reminds me of Twisted Metal and Carmageddon, in a good way. If you enjoy demolition derby type games you'll like it. If you're expecting a huge, complex, deep, 100-hour game experience you might want to look elsewhere. If you're able to rent it I would say don't be put off by the critic reviews, and at least give it a try.    … Expand
  4. DWlubu1998
    Jun 28, 2011
    6
    This game is fun for and hour then you just want to put in the garbage. Bad graphics for a 360, cool plot but fails to bring a good time. Each player has a back story that you can only find when the game is loading which is stupid, some of the events are overly hard and there is only one event that is actually fun.
  5. gamingisgreat
    Aug 28, 2016
    4
    Blood Drive is a poor game.

    The game is great fun,but the cheap AI and lack of content really hurts this game.

    The graphics are ugly,and the framerate drops constantly

    Sound design and soundtrack suck too.

    Overall,Blood Drive is a poor game that I would not recommend
  6. Attis48
    Oct 4, 2019
    5
    Who wouldn't remember the slightly sick-minded car-breaker game, Carmageddon, released in the late '90s? He certainly lived a few episodes on Pc and paid homage to the good old gray on the PS1. Sidhe Interactive came up with a game with a similar design.The recipe was as simple as a wooden cube: zombies, rock'n'roll, tolerance-crushing arenas, and various pairs of patient / character andWho wouldn't remember the slightly sick-minded car-breaker game, Carmageddon, released in the late '90s? He certainly lived a few episodes on Pc and paid homage to the good old gray on the PS1. Sidhe Interactive came up with a game with a similar design.The recipe was as simple as a wooden cube: zombies, rock'n'roll, tolerance-crushing arenas, and various pairs of patient / character and armed verdos. The story of the game is the usual, end of the world, epidemic, serial ... The fun of the remaining members of humanity: you can witness the arenas of a town called Las Rulettas as our mechanized gladiators bring order to the arena dead and many times to each other. in the game's career mode, there are seven championship series that consist of several types of races. There is only one event, and there is a challenge game mode where, of course, time, point, etc. to meet the challenge. There will be simple zombie shooting / killing, then the same version in versmikation mode, checkpoint tournaments in the same way, CTF-style King of the Skull game mode, and Massacre where you can eliminate everyone on the field, dead and rival. Each character's vehicle has different special features, can be bossed, different assorted killing tools can be picked up in arenasSo far it sounds good, the gamer who craves the Carmageddon scent is curiously entertained, but something "nose-jerking" gets something instead of a gourmet bite. What is it that hits the player's "stomach"? Let's face it: stuff hasn't really become nice in terms of visuality, but at least it's ugly. Not that the Xbox / PS3 console generation doesn't peak or mid-field, but it just beats the level of retromasas. But what really ruins it is the controllability and the physical model. Okay, this is an arcade game, but the control of the cars is still scandalous / the camera system is not at its height / but the physics .. our car is bouncing, flying, etc. in the event of a collision in the air, the wind would blow like an empty pet bottle after an explosion. The cheater, let's not talk about AI. No problem if there is a challenge in the game, but the opponents tend to suck us in, and their machines hardly take the damage. What saves the game for a while is the sick mood, but that in itself is little. Like I don't understand, how Activision anno allowed this clashed masterpiece to hit the market.… Expand
  7. VitiatedGaming
    Jul 20, 2020
    1
    During this review, I will attempt to describe Blood Drive to you in a way that can't really be done. People can easily say "A game is bad", but it's hard to know exactly how bad something is unless you do it yourself. Sort of like when someone says "This smells absolutely awful" and holds it out for you to smell. You take a whiff, to either satisfy your own curiosity or validate the factDuring this review, I will attempt to describe Blood Drive to you in a way that can't really be done. People can easily say "A game is bad", but it's hard to know exactly how bad something is unless you do it yourself. Sort of like when someone says "This smells absolutely awful" and holds it out for you to smell. You take a whiff, to either satisfy your own curiosity or validate the fact that yes, that thing smells terrible. Blood Drive is the video game equivalent of that foul smelling item.

    Blood Drive is a racing game, where you must square off against 5 other vehicles over a series of events, which take place on different maps in a cup. Issue is, all the maps are terrible and there are only about 7 events, many of which boil down to doing the exact same thing. Total Massacre, which gives you points for killing zombies and cars, Zombie Roadkill, points for killing zombies, and Roadkill Elimination, points for killing zombie quickly. Checkpoint Elimination and Checkpoint Race, which is racing between checkpoints (who would have thought?) and King of the Skull, which is Oddball from Halo in cars. Nothing close to fun or original.

    You have 8 characters total to choose from, also none of which are good. They tried to add an element of depth to the game by giving the characters all similar backstories, but it truly adds nothing to the mindless races and cups. The weapons are mostly useless, with only 3 really being worth using whatsoever (minigun, saw blades, and the rail gun). All characters are given special powers called Rage, most of which are (you guessed it) pretty useless. Nothing creative in the weapon department at all.

    Now onto the gameplay...Ah, the gameplay. You will spawn 50 feet in the air, unable to participate in the events. You will get stuck in numerous walls, or flip out multiple times into the air, especially with smaller characters. You will ram another car with the skull 15 times and not get it, but you will get tapped lightly from behind and have it stolen. A Behemoth (insta-kill zombie) will spawn directly in your path without giving you a chance to avoid it. Zombies will not spawn during zombie kill events. Your kills will be stolen an obscene amount of times. This game has no fun factor involved at all. Everything handles terribly, the game looks worse than Twisted Metal: Black on the PS2. and the same boring events will leave you in tears.

    Avoid at all costs, unless you want to experience what hell truly looks like.

    1/10    … Expand
  8. IActuallyPlayd
    Nov 6, 2022
    3
    The only thing that would ever bring me back to Blood Drive is knowing it has a kick ass main menu theme.

    Especially now in 2020, there is no reason to play this beyond curiosity when you see it in the bargain bin for $5 .

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Metascore
40

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 21
  3. Negative: 16 out of 21
  1. MEGamers
    Feb 21, 2011
    30
    Blood Drive is like a radioactive element - admired from a distance, but never to be touched.
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  2. Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
    Feb 7, 2011
    45
    Utterly rubbish, but bizarrely addictive. [March 2011, p.102]
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  3. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jan 13, 2011
    30
    A total snooze cruise of a car combat game.
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